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The workes of Geffray Chaucer : newlye printed, wyth dyuers workes whych were neuer in print before : as in the table more playnly doth appere

by: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Grafton, Richard, -1572? printer; Reynes, John, -1544, bookseller; Thynne, William, -1546, editor; Copley, Lionell, former owner; Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose

Publication date: 1542

Publisher: [London] : Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes dwellynge at the sygne of saynte George in Pauls Church-yarde

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Edited by William Thynne

Mostly in verse

Includes a number of spurious works

Printer's name from STC

This is a variant of the other 1542 edition, which bears the imprint: "Prynted by Wyllyam Bonham."

Signatures: Áþ B-2Ýœ 2A-2T́œ

Title within woodcut, architectural border; initials

"The Caunterbury tales", "The romau[n]t of the rose" and "Boetius de consolatione philosophie" each have separate title pages; foliation and register are continuous

Leaves 371, 372 misnumbered ccclxxx, ccclxxxxii

STC (2nd ed.)

ESTC

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.401.67 bound in early calfskin panelled in blind. Spine rebacked, with red leather label. Armorial bookplate of Lionell Copley, Esq. Title page and final leaf with numerous early/contemporary inscriptions, including "This boke does be long unto John Abbotte [Allotte?], 1583." Printer's name inscribed along fore-edge. Acquired Jan., 1941.

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Addeddate: 2015-01-07 19:03:59.83713

Associated-names: Grafton, Richard, -1572? printer; Reynes, John, -1544, bookseller; Thynne, William, -1546, editor; Copley, Lionell, former owner; Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose